"Conservative" Baby Shower??

[babyrabbitoh]

Hi Ladies,

I need some help. Im having a baby shower and dont really want to do the games thing, but dont mind a couple. (but maybe something different)

Is there something different i can do than what normally happens at baby showers.

any suggestions please.

thanks

[the_queen]

You could have a blessingway, instead of a "baby shower". Get in a massage therapist to give hand massages to everyone; do a belly cast; have everyone bring a candle, which they light in turn and say something empowering to you, and then they take the candle home and when you go into labour they will light the candle again and send strength vibes your way, and you will know that all these wonderful woman are thinking of you and sending love and light to you; Have beautiful fruit and herbal tea's in beautiful gorgeous china tea cups, with gourmet biscuits/cakes/nibblies; And whatever other "hippy" type stuff you can think of :D I guess if you google "blessingway" there must be some websites out there with "models" of what to do.

Basically it's a woman-only gathering where you collectively celebrate the power of the birthing mother, and draw on the strength of our fore-mothers to give you encouragement during labour.

[oleander]

I didnt have a baby shower as such. My mum organised a morning tea at her place. There was my aunties, nonna, cousins and we just sat in the lounge and had a cup of tea and some cake. A few of my aunties bought me gifts but it wasnt a gift giving thing. Really just a casual get together for the ladies to talk about babies and stuff. I enjoyed it.

[Ashleigh<3]

You could have a blessingway, instead of a "baby shower". Get in a massage therapist to give hand massages to everyone; do a belly cast; have everyone bring a candle, which they light in turn and say something empowering to you, and then they take the candle home and when you go into labour they will light the candle again and send strength vibes your way, and you will know that all these wonderful woman are thinking of you and sending love and light to you; Have beautiful fruit and herbal tea's in beautiful gorgeous china tea cups, with gourmet biscuits/cakes/nibblies; And whatever other "hippy" type stuff you can think of :D I guess if you google "blessingway" there must be some websites out there with "models" of what to do.

Basically it's a woman-only gathering where you collectively celebrate the power of the birthing mother, and draw on the strength of our fore-mothers to give you encouragement during labour.


Wow!! Remind me of all this when it's time for my next baby shower! ;) hehe. What wonderful ideas you came up with!:yes:

I was only going to suggest maybe have it with a few close friends, at the beach or maybe a park? Maybe a little picnic somewhere nice.

I'm no expert at the conservative showers as mine was a big one.
But i do have a great non-alcoholic sangria recipe if you're interested :p

Good luck!

[veve]

there are a few places in brissie that I have heard of people using for baby showers (I cant remember the places .. but a few key word googles could help you out) ..

one .. was to go to a bed and breafast place ( I remember laurell edwards (sp??) going there on one of the TV shows..) they do the old fashioned morning teas .. you know .. with the spiffy cups/ saucers and amazing 'old fashioned' food - very civilised .. beautiful scenery .. tablecloths .. etc etc - I remember during the show one woman was having her hens party there (she wasn't interested in strippers and grog .. so this was an alternative for her) ..

the other - was a place somewhere in the city ... (I should know where!!) - that does a huge chocolate celebration .. where everything you are served is chocolate in one form or another ... (my sons godmother actually suggested this to me as an option for my babyshower) - apparently again they regularly get bookings for baby showers (nothing like a big group of women and LOTS of chocolate!!!)

if either of those ideas interest you .. I'm happy to help you google :D PM me

xx
Jen

[angcaltam]

I had a baby shower with my last and I didn't want the silly games but wanted to do something for the baby. We went to spotlight and got all these crafty things, some cut off velvet square pieces which everyone got either 1 or 2 up to the person and they got to decorate it and we made a wall hang out of them. My DD loves it. I can email a few pictures if you would like to see. And by the way, none of us are creative people but it turned out really good.

Good luck and have fun.:yes: :yes: :yes: :yes:

[babyrabbitoh]

thanks guys,

well i love the chocolate idea! sounds fantastic though im in sydney..

well im having it at my mil's and just didnt really want to play games i think as i feel they are not really me and im 31!!! anyway please keep the ideas coming.

thanks

[Jenko]

How about a trivia game. Not too silly but still fun, gets the guests involved and is something to do. Ask guests to name the offspring of celebrities eg what is the name of tom and katies baby? Or you can name the celeb child and ask guests to write down the name of it's famous parents.

Same game, but you could use animals and ask guests to write down their offspring eg What to you call a baby horse?

You could have simple gifts as prizes such as chocolates, soaps, candles or mini picture frames.

[AmandaMum2B]

Hi Babyrabbitoh and Ladies,

I had my (our) baby shower on Saturday and it was a complete success, although it was definitely very unconventional/non-traditional.
Like you Babyrabbitoh, I'm 29 and didn't want to do the "games" thing and I don't have a large family so don't have any sisters/cousins/aunties etc. who would have come so my hubby and I just had an afternoon party with all of our friends (boys and girls). We had the AFL on in the background for all the boys to watch, although none of them did, and just had tonnes of beer and pink bubbles for everyone as well as nibbles to keep everyone happy. We started at 3pm, so everyone arrived at 3.30 - 4pm and by 7.30pm everyone had gone and I had my parents and hubby clean up while I relaxed.
The only "game" things we did is everyone was given a nappy and one of the nappies had a smear of nutella on it, the person who got that nappy was given a box of chocolates. And I had a "signature bear" so everyone could write a message to our little one on it.
Everyone bought gifts (which we didn't expect), so my hubby and I opened the presents together in front of everyone at around 4.30pm.
We had such a great afternoon (although it was very hot here in brissy) we can't wait for the naming ceremony when our baby makes an appearance!

Good luck for the rest of your pregnancy and I hope you enjoy your baby shower as much as we enjoyed ours.

Cheers,
Amanda

[~mia&ryan~]

For my baby shower I didn't want games... just not my kinda things lol! So I had high tea at hyatt sanctuary cove with around 20ppl. I was lovely, little sandwiches, cakes, scones on beautiful tiers. I gave everyone who came some delicious choccies in little white boxes with pink ribbon (cos we were having a girl) and had a book for everyone to write a message in. Itwent for a few hours and was lots of fun talking about everything including babies. Everyone brought us pressies, we were very spoilt. Its was great and I will definately do something similar again next time:yes: